New MuseScore 3.6 Style Defaults Unexpectedly Applying via CLI Process

Jer Roque

• Dec 30, 2020 - 06:00

Reported version

3.6

Type

Functional

Frequency

Few

Severity

S3 - Major

Reproducibility

Always

Status

active

Regression

Workaround

Project

MuseScore

Download MuseScore 3.6 AppImage to Linux Installation
Take a MuseScore file created by MuseScore 3.5.2 and create a JSON job file for CLI with the following contents:
[{
'in': mscz_file_name,
'out': [
["[", "]-song_name.pdf"],
["[", "]-song_name.png"],
["[MID][", "]-song_name.mid"],
"[MP3]-song_name.mp3",
"[MID]-song_name.mid"
]
}]

Run the following CLI command: musescore3 -j json_file -r 144 -m -s -w

Observe that the new style defaults that are prompted when opening older files in the MuseScore 3.6 UI are automatically applied. (Composer text is smaller, first system is indented, measure numbers are italicized)

These should not automatically apply by default, since the user was not prompted at all to approve the changes.

Attachment	Size
MuseScore Differences.png	476.75 KB
Suikoden II - La Mia Tristezza.mscz	69.06 KB

Comments

kontrafuss

• Mar 9, 2021 - 09:40

Is there a workaround to this? The indented first system is killing me.

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 9, 2021 - 09:57

Apply your own style file with this unset, noIndentOnFirstSystem.mss:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<museScore version="3.02">
  <Style>
    <enableIndentationOnFirstSystem>0</enableIndentationOnFirstSystem>
    </Style>
  </museScore>

kontrafuss

• Mar 9, 2021 - 10:08

I'm trying: mscore -S noindent.xml -j update.json, but no success, still indented. What did I do wrong?

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 9, 2021 - 10:11

Style files are .mss, not .xml (even if they look like XML files)
But even then I'm not sure whether that works,

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 9, 2021 - 10:12

Frequency	Once	⇒	Few
Severity	S2 - Critical	⇒	S3 - Major
Reported version	3.x-dev	⇒	3.6

Jojo-Schmitz

• Mar 9, 2021 - 10:18

measure numbers are italicized
That sample score doesn't show any measure numbers, not in 3.6.2 (with or withour takining the new fonts) nor in 3.5.2
Please retest with 3.6.2, back in December that got to have been the Release Canditate

kontrafuss

• Apr 8, 2021 - 10:25

My workaround is this:

Open Format / Style dialog, select page "Score"
Check "Enable indentation on first system"
Set parameter "first system indentation" to 0.0sp
Uncheck "Enable indentation on first system" (optional)

The command line tool will not change the indentation value.

The style file workaround above does not work for me.